Rating: PG-13 (suggestive situations)
Spoilors: post-ep for Requium (takes place 4 months after the abduction)
Category: MSR
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Summary: Mulder returns with Scully there infront of him. He can't quit take it.

Scully's tears ran down her face more freely now that Skinner had left the room. Four months. Four damn months of waiting for him to walk through the apartment door. Now here he is, lying here unconcious before her and looking more helpless than he had ever been before.

She was helpless.

He had eight bruises, seven scrapes, two broken bones, and a concussion.

No scars.

She supposed that was a good sign. She supposed.

"Scu-Scully! Scully! No! Damn it! I want Scully! LET.GO.OF.ME! YoubastardsihateyouIHAteyouIHATEYouIHATEYOU!". He screamed suddenly jerking.

Skinner ran into the room. It took the power of a military-trained man to restrain a weak man.

Scully told herself that this wasn't Mulder. It looked like Mulder. Even felt like Mulder. But HE wasn't there.

His soul had been taken.

She ran into the corner and huddled, hugging her knees and covering her ears until the sides of her head turned blue. She didn't want to hear the screaming.

She sobbed herself to sleep in the corner saying,

"Daddy'sgonedaddy'sgonedaddy'sgonehe'sgone."

She wouldn't wake up until the pain stopped.

She knew it would be a long time.

Skinner came to Scully's sleeping form and gently called her name.

"Hmmm?", she said, half awake.

Skinner half smiled and his look softened.

"He asked for you again."

"What? I mean he-he asked for me?". She was bewildered.

He nodded.

She practically leaped up away from the corner, although she walked like she was knee deep in water.

"Agent Scully?". Skinner stopped her from entering the room where her goal lay.

"I told him. About the baby."

She nodded.

"Thank you. It makes it easier."

"I also told him about the DNA results. I told him that he was-" "-I know."

He nodded and watched her enter the room.

He stood there.

She walked slowly, still, up to him and took his face in her hands. He looked down at her abdomen, which was slightly swelled, and put his hand over it.

He looked back up and his eyes were being filled with salty water.

"Scully I...I'm so sorry I wasn't here."

"No. No, Mulder, please don't do this. Not now. I..We...I need to feel you. You need to feel me. And the other life that you created.

"Oh my God-"

He embraced her and never let go.

Not until the baby kicked.

Then they both knew they had been waiting too long.

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